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...young people who have no other source of reliable information about sexuality - and even for many of those who do - the public schools remain a primary source of facts about sex, contraception and abstinence. And given that two thirds of American public schools do teach a combination of abstinence and sex education, and that rates of teen pregnancy have reached their lowest point in two decades, it may be possible to draw the preliminary conclusion that the combination curriculum is working. Of course, as any statistician or social scientist will tell you, it's always dangerous to draw conclusions from...
...because we necessarily feel they are capable of making adult decisions, or because we want to relinquish control over their education. But because for better or worse, they are the only ones who know what's really happening in high schools. We can speculate about their motivations and teach them about our expectations until we're blue in the face. But we're not out there in the schools every day, making tough decisions. The numbers and the anecdotal evidence are there to prove that teens are having sex, and we can dislike the statistics, but to deny or ignore...
...having been visited in the 1946 movie Anna and the King of Siam as well as the catchy and charming Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I (starring the unforgettable Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr). The story is simple: the king of Siam hires a foreign schoolteacher to teach his court (including his 58 children) English and give insight into the ways of the West. A clash of traditions and customs ensue, but so does a growing relationship between the stern ruler and the headstrong schoolteacher...
...There are resources here that may not be available at other schools," Berg says. "And there's the opportunity to teach the best undergraduates in the country...
Home-schooling is a tough issue in the field of education. On the one hand, it's possible to understand why parents--for either educational or religious reasons--might want to teach their own children, rather than sending them to a poorly-funded public school or to an institution which does not promote and may in fact ignore their personal beliefs. Home-schooling provides control in a society where parents often feel powerless. And it may seem like a logical extension of that control for those parents to send their children to a home-schoolers' college with...